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Historical Event on 2/22/1958

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/1905Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31), was born.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
3/4/1927Dr. Laxminarayan Lal was born.
11/17/1925Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born.
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
9/27/1972Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district.
11/13/1995The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
11/21/1994Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah, 84, noted economist and educationist, died.